Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Crossover Cover: Horror in Clay

The
Green Lama battles a murderous golem created by a Rabbi who initially
unleashed the creature on the German consulate in New York. The Rabbi
has learned of the Holocaust the Nazis will soon enact against his
people from hieroglyphics in an ancient temple in Jerusalem. The
temple had images on the walls of the Ark of the Covenant, the Staff
of Ra, and crystal skulls. Also in the temple was a statue of a
horrible ancient god named Cthulhu. The Green Lama appeared in
stories by “Richard Foster” (Kendell Foster Crossen) in the pulp
magazine Double Detective.
The Ark of the Covenant, Staff of Ra, and crystal skull references
are meant to evoke the Indiana Jones films; indeed, an earlier
version of this novella that appeared in the anthology The
Green Lama Volume One contains a reference to
“Professor Jones, Jr. at Marshall College.” Cthulhu needs no
explanation at this point. The Lama went on to battle Cthulhu in
Garcia's The Green Lama: Unbound.